OLIVIA COOKE As ALICENT HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2x06: Smallfolk

Phia Saban gave a wrenching, powerful, heart-breaking performance as Helaena Targaryen, Aegon’s doomed, haunted queen and mother to his children.

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OLIVIA COOKE as PAIGE The Good Mother (2023) dir. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

alicent + protecting her children HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–)

EMMA D'ARCY and OLIVIA COOKE — React To House of the Dragon Scenes

AEGON II TARGARYEN & SUNFYRE in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

5am thoughts: on the one hand, hotd expects its viewers to be smart enough to magically realize that s2 took place over the course of six months, pick up on the subtlest most nothing clues to deduce that laenor died offscreen, that rhaenyra had a religious reawakening to the gods of old valyria offscreen, that aemond went from devastation at becoming a kinslayer to gleefully burning entire regions of his kingdom as prince regent, and that alicent, who once stepped in front of a dragon for her son, is now willing to see him publicly beheaded at rhaenyra's earliest convenience, among a score of other things, but also dumb enough to not nitpick inconsistent timelines, geographical errors, and abrupt episode-to-episode changes in the characters.

sure, jan

OLIVIA COOKE as ALICENT HIGHTOWER — 1.07 | "Driftmark"

THANK YOU GOD FOR BRINGING OUR FAMILY BACK TOGETHER

The greens, originally known as the queen's party, were the faction of House Targaryen and their loyalists who supported the ascent of Aegon II Targaryen as King of the Seven Kingdoms during the Dance of the Dragons and the years that preceded it. (in/sp)

RHAENICENT + EYES